Who am I?
Hailing from the flat, landlocked prairies of Canada, I serendipitously ended up on the path of a marine biologist. I now study the corals of the Great Barrier Reef with Dr. Sean Connolly at James Cook University, Australia.

I completed my BSc at my hometown university, the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada) where I worked with Drs. James Hare (Honours supervisor), Gail Davoren, Darren Gillis, Gary Anderson, and Margaret Docker. From there, I did a research-based MSc at the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Canada) where I worked on prey chemical communication of predation threats with Drs. Maud Ferrari and Doug Chivers. I also interned in the lab of Dr. Ludovic Dickel at the Université de Caen-Normandie (Normandy, France).
Currently, I am looking to model coral thermal tolerance evolution with the long-term goal of applying our findings to better manage of the Great Barrier Reef in the context of climate change.

Research Interests
I started as a behavioural ecologist, but now focus on evolutionary questions at the population level, tested within a modelling framework. Ultimately, I hope to combine aspects of both to better understand how behaviour evolves and manifests in changes at the population level.

For more information, check out my Research tab!
Ink'd!
Upon dissecting cuttlefish, take care to avoid nipping the ink sac!